Overview

The U. S. Army Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC), a subordinate organization to the Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM), is the Army’s focal point for providing research, development, and engineering technology and services for aviation and missile platforms across the lifecycle. AMRDEC has a long history of providing unparalleled service to its aviation and missile customers, while always striving to provide the greatest service to its ultimate customer, the warfighter, by providing technology and weapon system solutions to ensure his/her victory on the battlefield.

AMRDEC's mission is to “deliver collaborative and innovative technical capabilities for responsive and cost-effective research, product development, and life cycle systems engineering solutions” in order to equip the Warfighter with the best technology today and tomorrow.

To AMRDEC's employees, the mission statement means focusing on meeting both current and future life cycle needs in support of America's Warfighter. AMRDEC's 3,000+ talented and technically-proficient Government employees have built a reputation for finding creative solutions, rapidly transitioning technologies, and providing synergistic expertise to customers and stakeholders. The Warfighter, Program Executive Offices, Program Managers, numerous Department of Defense, and other Federal agencies, as well as academia and industrial researchers, seek AMRDEC's science and technology expertise, which is characterized by hard working, talented personnel, and unique test bed capabilities.

The macro impact of the mission statement is that AMRDEC is a valued partner for the Warfighter by rapidly providing technology, critical materiel, analyses, and system support for the entire life cycle. Approximately 20 missile systems, 10 aviation platforms, numerous unmanned platforms, and other major weapon systems are supported by AMRDEC.

AMRDEC's overarching goal, to provide the Warfighter with materiel and technology that will enable swift and decisive victory through technological superiority, has built a shared sense of purpose and focuses AMRDEC’s management and employees on rapidly providing the technology needed to achieve the Army Vision.

Vision: Be a Warfighter-focused Valued Team of World Leaders in Aviation and Missile Technologies and Life Cycle Systems Engineering.

Workforce: AMRDEC is a world-class organization with approximately 3,000 Civilian employees, more than 2,000 of which are engineers and scientists. AMRDEC has approximately 25 military employees and over 6,000 support contractors.

Facilities: AMRDEC conducts operations in approximately 1.9 million square feet of facilities.